Claude Gets Smarter: Anthropic Integrates Its AI with Google Workspace and Launches New Research Tool
Anthropic is turning up the heat in the AI race. On Tuesday, the company announced that its AI assistant, Claude, now integrates directly with Google Workspace — meaning it can help you stay organized by pulling useful info straight from your Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs.
This integration is rolling out in beta to subscribers on Anthropic’s Max, Team, Enterprise, and Pro plans. If you're on a business or team account, admins will need to enable the feature first before anyone can link their Google Workspace with Claude.
This move positions Anthropic as one of the first third-party AI companies to get this kind of deep access into Google’s productivity tools — something that even giants like OpenAI and Google DeepMind are still evolving. While OpenAI’s ChatGPT connects with Google Drive, and Google’s Gemini AI works with Workspace, Claude is now stepping up with a smart, more personalized approach.
So what does that mean for users? Claude can now reference your emails, surface key calendar events, and pull from your Docs to give you answers that are actually tailored to your life — no more uploading files or re-explaining things in long prompts. Want help managing your family schedule? Claude could scan your inbox and calendar, spot important commitments, look up the school calendar, and even check the weather — all in one go.
And when Claude pulls info from your Google Workspace, it shows in-line citations so you can see exactly where it got its facts. That transparency is meant to build trust, especially as privacy questions come up around how much of your data the AI can actually see.
To that point, Anthropic says it’s taking privacy seriously. The company confirmed to TechCrunch that Claude doesn’t train on your personal data by default, and it uses strict authentication to keep your information secure. It also can’t move data between users — each Google Workspace account connection is tied to one specific user or team, period.
While Claude can’t yet schedule calendar events or send emails on your behalf, this kind of tight integration with Workspace could be a game-changer for people juggling busy personal and professional lives.
Alongside this news, Anthropic also launched Claude Research, a new deep-research feature designed to give detailed, web-informed answers in under a minute. Think of it as Anthropic’s answer to the AI "research agents" fr
om OpenAI and Google — fast, smart, and efficient. It doesn’t run on a special model but taps into Claude’s web browsing abilities to pull everything together in a clear, cohesive answer.
Claude Research is now available to Max, Team, and Enterprise users in the U.S., Japan, and Brazil, with Pro subscribers getting access soon.
Both updates are part of Anthropic’s bigger push to boost Claude’s usefulness and draw more users to its subscription plans. While Claude reached 3.3 million web users in March, according to SimilarWeb, that’s still far behind ChatGPT — but with smart integrations like these, Anthropic is clearly aiming to close the gap.
